A group of civilians, militiamen and assault guards (Republican Police Units) stop to read a propaganda poster on the Rambla in Barcelona. In it you can read written in Catalan “the militias need you.” July 1936.
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The lost images of anarchist Barcelona
Re-discovered after 80 years, the photographic legacy of the CNT which brings the libertarian revolution in Barcelona back to life, is now exhibited for the first time.
“The exposition tries to dismantle the image of anarchism constructed by the bourgeoisie over the years,” says Andrés Antebi, one of the commissioners of the exposition. “The propaganda office of the CNT focused on dismantling the stigma of anarchism being roaming bandits and irrational violence.”
The lost images of anarchist Barcelona
Re-discovered after 80 years, the photographic legacy of the CNT which brings the libertarian revolution in Barcelona back to life, is now exhibited for the first time.
“The exposition tries to dismantle the image of anarchism constructed by the bourgeoisie over the years,” says Andrés Antebi, one of the commissioners of the exposition. “The propaganda office of the CNT focused on dismantling the stigma of anarchism being roaming bandits and irrational violence.”
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Local del POUM Comité Local de Barcelona, junto a las oficinas de la milicia obrera, Plaza Pitarra Quizá en 1937
Young couple sharing a soda on a terrace. Barcelona. 1938
Republican militia members, Barcelona, 1936 Photograph by Robert Capa
